PSALM OF CHILDREN

Older people can be selfish, too: we blame the young for being thoughtless, but they aren’t the only sinners!

The views of older people can become more narrow: help us respect those who survive when we are gone.

Parents are sometimes most aware of the future: when there seems no future for our children, what are we to do?

In poorer countries the youngest are sent abroad: parents deliberately dismiss their children for ever;

it’s the only way to give them a chance: for life is possible only with the rich,

so long as the children are allowed to travel: they can be immigrants, when parents can not.

Then do we mean to close our country to refugees: in order to exclude drugs, must we keep out the children?

The only solution would be peace throughout the world: to prevent the famines caused by war.

For it’s the children who will suffer: we only push off our problems to future generations.

God, give us sensitivity to the agonies of parents: but grant us a stronger will to save the children.

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